There Is Something (Too) Seriously Wrong With The Way New Scripted [Fiction] TV Shows and Movies Are Made Today

by Herbie J Pilato

Everybody Mumbles And Looks The Same — Everything Is Too Edgy

I watched some new television show the other night because I always try to watch new TV shows and at least give them a chance. read article

Ken Levine on Developing Plots for the M*A*S*H TV Series

The Great Ken Levine gives us the inside scoop on the writing of MASH in one of the best -how-to columns we’ve ever seen.

by Ken Levine

MASH episodes tend to be complicated and I’m often asked how we plotted out stories. So here’s how we did it. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #90 “Dyeing”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – March 30, 2020

Good morning! Welcome to another new week at TVWriter™, starting with our latest look at the most popular blog posts and resource pages during the  last week.

They are, in order: read article

BBC to open up its Writers’ Academy to non-professionals

A couple of days ago we posted about how The Society of Authors in the UK is setting up a fund to help writers get through the financial problems that are part of the current worldwide Covid crisis.

Today we bring news of another way our British cousins are supporting our favorite art form – TV writing. Wow. Just wow.

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